Intro Questions
These include enforcing laws, ensuring public safety, and delivering justice.
What are the 3 goals of the criminal justice system?
The moral principle determining acceptable behavior.
What is justice?
Individuals sue one another seeking compensation for injuries done to them.
What is a civil case?
These must be proven in order to convict a person of a crime.
What are elements of a crime?
In Nevada this is .08%
What is blood alcohol content or concentration?
A generic term that refers to the laws, procedures, institutions, and policies at play before, during, and after the commission of a crime.
Police, courts, corrections.
What are the three primary components of the criminal justice system?
Primary source of criminal law.
What is legislative enactment?
Guilty mind
What is mens rea?
A repeat offender of crime.
What is recidivist?
This involves research methods for criminology, criminological theory, and psychology behind criminal behavior.
What is the study of criminal justice?
Taking a person into physical custody.
What is an arrest?
Based on legal precedents.
What is common law?
Easiest type of intent to define.
What is specific intent?
Poverty, unemployment, lack of parenting, addiction.
What are causes of crime?
Why it is important to study criminal justice?
Proactive or reactive policing.
What are two ways of police responses?
Distinction of these is spelled out by statute.
What are felonies and misdemeanors?
Conduct prohibited by law.
What is a criminal act?
Primary source of criminal law.
What is legislative enactment?
What is an example of criminal justice?
A list of rights that a police officer to required to read to a suspect after they have been arrested.
What are the Miranda Warnings?
Written by prominent judges, lawyers, and legal scholars.
What is the Model Penal Code?
Examples of this include bigamy, health safety, and traffic offenses.
What is strict liability?
A person acts with extreme lack of care or unintentionally.
What is criminal negligence?